They say there’s nothing more cruel than schoolboys.  They’re wrong.  Far worse are those you were at school with – even after fifty years!  My class of ’71 ...
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Now that a little time has passed and passions have, hopefully, cooled I want to reflect on the furore surrounding Nadav Lapid’s critique of The Kashmir Files. I beli...
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I’m well aware most governments and civil servants believe ordinary folk like us are dimwits who will accept everything we are told. That’s true regardless of which...
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Is the Collegium System of choosing judges perfect? That’s what former Chief Justice Lalit has claimed in recent interviews. Indeed, he’s even suggested it’s intr...
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Bahrain is not a destination I would have chosen to visit. I used to think of it as a poor cousin of the Emirates and Qatar. But the truth is I knew nothing of the plac...
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We don’t really have a tradition of people who’ve held high office writing about how they’ve acquitted themselves. Montek Singh Ahluwalia is one exception. He’s...
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It was 7.00 in the evening and the end of a tiring day when she rang. “What do you think of cricket?”.  From her voice I could guess she was one of those pretty yo...
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In the end it was a coronation. That it happened on Diwali would have mattered personally to the 42 year old devout hindu. However, I want to make a different point. Ri...
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The nationally embarrassing reports that cough syrups made by Maiden Pharmaceuticals are responsible for the death of 66 children in The Gambia are just a hint of the d...
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One of the joys of my job is publishers often send books and every now and then one turns out to be a gem. That’s certainly an apt description of Barry O’Brien’s ...
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